GURUGRAM: The department of town and country planning (DTCP) has directed the developers of Greenopolis, a group housing project in Sector 89, to submit a phase-wise timeline for completion of the township. The directive came on Tuesday in the wake of a series of complaints filed by homebuyers, who are upset over the prolonged delay in possession of their flats.

Spread over 47 acres, the project — jointly developed by Orris Infrastructure and The 3C Company — was launched in 2011 with a 2015 deadline. However, work has stopped at the site for the last two years and buyers are not sure when they will get their flats. The project has 2,317 housing units.

Investors, many of them have already paid around 90% of the cost, alleged that out of the 28 towers, only four towers were near completion.

“Construction was stopped in 2015 and despite repeated attempts, we failed to get any satisfactory reply on the expected completion of the project. A group of buyers had visited the site and found out that a big nullah is bifurcating the land. The developers had never informed us about the existence of a nullah in the middle of the project site,” alleged Lalit Khanna, one of the buyers.

High tension towers are also passing through the land, which would pose serious threat to residents in future. “The developers are also delaying the registration under the Rera,” Khanna added.

Vijay Raj, another homebuyer, said the developers had collected around Rs 43 crore as external development charges (EDC) and internal development charges (IDC) from them but never deposited the amount with the government.

“No road, water and power supply infrastructure has been developed in the area. And the amount, with interests, has increased to Rs 80 crore. Who will pay such a huge sum now?” asked Raj.

District town planner (DTP) RS Batth said the department did receive several complaints regarding delay in possession, collection of EDC, which was not deposited with the government, absence of any infrastructure facility and non-compliance of builder-buyer agreement. “We have inspected the project site and found merit in the complaints. The project was supposed to be developed in three phases but till now, the developers have not been able to complete even one phase,” said Batth.

“The developers have been directed to submit within 15 days a phase-wise timeline for completion of the project. Also, they have been asked to share all relevant documents, including details of various development charges collected from the buyers,” the town planner added.

Planning officer Jaibir Sharma said as per Rera rules, the money collected from the buyers of a particular project should be spent on the construction of that project only. “The developers of Greenopolis have been directed to come up with the modalities for utilising the money collected from the buyers on the project,” said Sharma.

A representative of the developers said the project was delayed due to several reasons, including non-payment of the balance amount by buyers. “We are yet to get Rs 13 crore from the buyers,” he said.